Communications
Most post offices - identified by a yellow sign saying
Postamt - are open Monday to Friday 8am to noon and 2 to
6pm; those in larger towns often stay open during lunchtime, in
addition to a couple of hours on Saturday morning (8-10am). Vienna,
and cities like Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck, have at least one
post office that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Addresses of these are given in the relevant parts of the
guide.
Air mail ( Flugpost ) between Austria and the UK
usually takes three or four days, about a week to reach the US, and
ten days to Australia and New Zealand. For stamps (
Briefmarken ) for postcards within the EU, you may be able
to go to a tobacconist ( Tabak ), though for anything more
complicated or further afield, you'll probably have to go to a post
office in order to have your letter or parcel weighed.
Poste restante ( Postlagernd ) letters can be
sent to any post office, if you know the address. To collect mail,
go to the counter marked Postlagernde Sendungen - mail
should be addressed using this term rather than "poste restante".
It will be held for thirty days (remember to take your passport
when going to collect it).
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